From abuses in Gaari Geet and Holi meetings, to profanities hurled at the deity at a temple fest in Kerala and expletives being used as conjunctions in everyday life, Indians need no primer on bawdy ...

Historian V. Sriram and Carnatic singer Ashwath Narayanan took us through the fearless expressions of Ninda Stuti, where saints and poets mock, provoke, and even accuse their gods to forge an ...